The White House reports that South Korean accesses downed their homepage after a petition demanding the US make schools stop using the “Sea of Japan” name in their textbooks inflamed the passions of nationalists.

The trouble began when a Virginia-based Korean pressure group started a petition on the White House’s “We the People” petition system, demanding that the federal government ban school textbooks from referring to the sea to west of Japan as “the Sea of Japan,” and instead call solely it “the East Sea.”

The text of the initial petition, which cannily attempts to present the obscure naming dispute as correcting injustices being inflicted on children and veterans, both of which obsess American politicians:

The East Sea – a FALSE history in our textbooks!

We are teaching our children a FALSE history in classrooms:

1. As a result of gruesome military expansionism, Japan changed “East Sea” (the original name of sea bordered by Korea, Russia, and Japan) to “Sea of Japan” in 1928

2. Korea was liberated in 1945, but Japan still refuses to return “East Sea” to its original identity.

3. Our veterans were the major force defeating Japan in World War II. We helped Korea to regain its freedom.

4. However, we are still teaching our children a FALSE history that was manipulated by the invader who attacked “Pearl Harbor”.

Please join us and sign this petition to correct a FALSE history in our textbooks. Our children have right to learn a TRUE history!

Given that in the US the federal government has nothing to do with selecting school textbooks (they are selected by schools from a list approved by the local state), there are some grounds to doubt whether the original petition was actually launched by anyone familiar with American politics.

The naming dispute has long inflamed Korean nationalists, although the issue arouses very little interest elsewhere.

Their usual tactic has been to cajole international organisations, map providers and even nations of some standing into dropping the “Sea of Japan” name, or failing that to include both in the hopes that they can get it dropped completely later.

This campaign seems to have stalled of late, with the International Hydrographic Organization recently opting to preserve “Sea of Japan” as the sole name of the sea, with only South Korea voting in favour of its proposal for it to be renamed “East Sea.”

The unusual fervour and international meddling of Korean nationalists has many in Japan concerned, and a counter-petition was launched:

Sea of Japan -the authentic history in our textbooks! We are teaching our children the authentic history, so why change?

We should definitely keep the Sea of Japan as it is now.

1. Contrary to the Korean claim that Japan changed “East Sea” to “Sea of Japan” in 1928, the Sea of Japan has always been the Sea of Japan, since the beginning of time.

2. South Koreans are under heavy communism influence because of communist North Korea, and have forgotten about the massive American blood spilled to defend them from the North Korean invasion aided by Russians and Communist Chinese during the Korean War in the ’50s. Now they want the American forces out. Their extreme ethnocentricity blinds them and they want to rewrite history per their stories. That is plain wrong.

Please join us and sign this petition to stop FALSIFYING history in our textbooks. Our children have right to keep learning a TRUE history!

The issue was widely reported in the Korean media, and soon both petitions became widely circulated online, with organised efforts in each country to flood the petitions with signatures in support of their position.

The White House subsequently reported that on the 20th of April the server was downed by heavy traffic and traffic analysis suggested the vast majority of the IPs involved were from South Korea.

The White House’s response was to temporarily block Korean access to the site until the flood of traffic abated.

They did not comment on whether the traffic was part of a denial of service attack (a popular tactic with Korean nationalists) or merely the result of an excessively intense effort to spam signatures originating in Korea.

It is not clear whether there are any restrictions on anonymous non-US citizens spamming petitions and signatures implemented on the site.

However, as the US government appears not to have actually acted on any of the petitions, preferring to cherry-pick popular petitions for brief official responses which explain how its existing policy in fact already addresses the petition’s request, this may be a moot point.

This is just like the Persian Gulf – Arabian Gulf spat. Google wimped-out on that one and left it unnamed. Maybe we will end up with the-gulf-with-no-name and the-sea-that-must-not-be-named. Sounds like something from Harry Potter.

The problem with the petition is that you need to register on the site, and it has to be a US address, or a valid APO/FPO. So unless the Koreans know of the address to Camp Bonnifas in the DMZ…..wasted effort by them.

Looks like you don’t know much history do you? Japan and Korea were colonized by the Northern Chinese, duh, so they are both the same people, duh. Most of the Japanese language still has a clear chinese origin.

Latin =/= Latino. Even though it’s called Latin America, it has barely anything to do with Latin. All it means is that the people there use Romance Languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, ect). Latino/Latina is just a term used for someone who’s either from or descended from someone who’s from Latin America (Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America). It is also not a synonym for Hispanic.

English uses many Latin roots… are we all Latino?
Well you are clearly Chinese for saying some stupid dumb thing like that because every thought you produce are only from your own perspective, just like these fucking koreans

this and some shit about some rock in the middle of this no-one-gives-a-fuck ocean bickering has been going on for several decades already, what with each party claiming to have “indisputable historical evidence” that these shits are theirs

You know, I once saw a map circa 1808 that said “Gulf of Corea” (yes, it’s spelled with a “C”) and another circa 1820 that said “Sea of Japan.” What I’m asking is what does any of this matter to anyone currently living in this world? As far as this outsider is concerned, this is all a matter of some sort of newly arisen national pride and it’s driving the region further apart. Nothing good is coming of this! I hate politics… I’m gonna pound an aspirin and have a nap.

This is fucking ridiculous. First off, it’s not history. It’s a motherfucking name.

Second, Koreans have the right to call the Sea whatever they so choose. That’s their right. What they do NOT have the right to do is force their values on people who are purely content to call something by the name of their own choosing.

Third, again, IT’S A FUCKING NAME!!! I just can’t get over that! They’re railing to have OTHER NATIONS change what they choose to name an area of the world because THEY see it as unjust. That’d be like Jewish Americans petitioning to have Germans cease calling Germany “Deutschland” and refer to it exclusively as “Nazi Germany”!

I’m sorry. I know the internet doesn’t give half a shit what I think, but I just can’t fucking get over how ridiculous this is! Fuck!

oh let them bitch… nationalist are just going to be a bunch of idiots any day. If they really wanted to get their precious point across, a cyber terrorist activity on a World Power protecting their asses from a Tepodon misfire is not the smartest idea.

WTH… can’t the two of them just use the damn sea together? it’s not like you’d fit 20 million people there. would be better if that fucking place became the military training ground for south-east and eastern asia. can’t believe they’re as narrow-minded as well.

I always thought Japan had more to complain about there. The rest of the world refers to their country with a badly-pronounced version of its actual name that itself is difficult to pronounce correctly in their own language, and that is what appears on the maps.

LOL you pussy traitor yellow immigrant fucktards need to go and live in 15th century you are pathetic genetic trash of white and black ancestors from historic times long before your even moved into east asia.

actually, if you really get technical, then there are only two ‘real human ancestors’ in the world: cro-magnon/neanderthals and homo erectus each intermingled with homosapiens to create modern humans way back in times. closest ethnic relatives of these ancestors are whites from russia-west europe and africans.

any other race is merely a derivative to immigrated to their present location. so there are no real ‘natives’ aside from these two, and america is merely one of two original human ethnicities claiming and raising a nation rightfully as the original ancestors of human kind.

Of course America belongs to the whites. World belongs to whites and blacks, all other are mere derivatives and should do as we say.

….does this sound like BS? it’s actually no more of BS than usual ethno-centric crap you hear from any other cultures/races.

You wanna beat your kids, send them to the army. You actually want them to make something out of life, raise them properly with some education and morals. Asians beating their kids never contributed to making them better persons or their earning more if you’re actually stupid enough to believe that.

Yes, beating their ass does not work (risk of abusing your child into depression or worse sociopathy), but then again not beating their ass does not work (spoiled brats and hikikiomoris). If you think about it, having children is not worth it simply due to being highly unpredictable.

I’d take social hipsters and bratty teens over the socially inept, suicidally-prone mental fuckups you see so much in this generation’s asian countries. Yeah they might make tolerant, obedient labor workers, but I doubt beating their asses prompt any “success” in future careers.

Perhaps you should spend some time actually developing some job skills, and not relying on what they told you about how valuable they told you that liberal arts degree of yours is; if you even finished.

BTW does your anus hurt when you see the guys with the asian nerds with engineering degrees buying houses and Corvettes?

lol at black people. they always complain that the reason they’re poor is because they’re a “minority”, but they already have two minorities beating them, including one group (asians) beating their former master race (whites)…

[quote]It is racism because not every black person is like that, so all you are doing is throwing off your biased ignorant opinion as fact, when unless you know every black person in this country you need to shut your mouth and get educated more.[/quote]
Nobody ever said anything about all blacks. The one with biased opinion is you.

I have to agree with the two people who have apparently been voted down. It seems some of the people that visit sancom are a racists lot. See, I said ‘SOME’;keyword. I wouldn’t have felt that this comment was so blatantly racist if included that one keyword.

It is racism because not every black person is like that, so all you are doing is throwing off your biased ignorant opinion as fact, when unless you know every black person in this country you need to shut your mouth and get educated more.

Number one reason they are poor is that attitude the man is keeping them down.
From birth there is no man keeping them down.
Instead it’s their culture.
The glorification of the thug lifestyle which in turn eventually gets them arrested and then the broken criminal justice system keeps them down.
Admittedly if the criminal justice system was not completely broken they’d be more successful as a group but it alone is not enough to be the main factor.
The thug style such as gold teeth etc can send the wrong message to a prospective employer that this person may steal or slack off even though it may be completely untrue.
The same applies to other races as well though they usually know yes I have to ware a suit to an interview.

Still sickening how this has degraded in a bunch of tiny minded racist arguments vs the name of stretch of ocean no one really gives a fuck about.
I suggest it be renamed the sea of piss and moan.

Criminal justice system is not as bad as those in the world, and US has much more work at hand than nations not having problems with ‘multiculturalism’ or massive influx of immigrants.

Most tend of overemphasize the failings of justice system rather than seeing that ordinary citizens just can’t handle their ‘freedom’ responsibly and dig their own graves. Most of, if not all the laws in this country is fairly common sense and straight forward. Don’t do unto others what you would not want to have done onto you. Those people just can’t help but put themselves above others.

Is the White Man threatening blacks to do drugs at the point of a knife? Is the ‘Man’ keeping them down by telling them to go to school and get education? See how Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson derogates Obama, a successful harvard grad, with ‘talking down to blacks’. It’s this kind of mentality that keeps blacks in socio-cultural shackles.

I agree with most of this. Not about the sea part but the rest. I myself am black and it disgust me when I see someone applying for a job with their pants half way off their ass accompanied by grills in their teeth. It’s a style I practically hate.
I wish rappers now a days used their power of influence to push children in the right direction.

Not in SanCom in all my time. I have other otaku interests, they take much more time.
Oh, i play guitar and bass too, ZZ Top type of stuff, and sometimes Be-Bop Jazz. But i like modern metal too.
I live in Sweden, we have good retirement money saving and paying system. Not millions, but in average 3500 dollar a month is the norm, if you have taken care of your rights, and earned average income.

The only reason Japs are doing so well is because their white masters have given them this privilege since they have been loyal slaves.
Same with inferior Koreans.
Gooks are natural born slaves to their white superiors.

Actually that info is incorrect.
Overall Median for full time workers 25 to 64.

White $40,442
Asian $42,109
Black $32,021
Hispanic $27,266

Whites and Asian are fairly close.

Now for the lutz I’ll post the most successful Asian demographic in the US Asian Indians they tend to make much more then other ethnic group.

Why a lot tend to be doctors this is not race but simply because a lot of Indian doctors go to the US because they can earn four or five times as much as back in their home country.
Yes the US considers people from India Asian even though genetically they’re Caucasoid and Australoid vs Mongoloid making them more related to either Polynesians and Europeans vs lets say Chinese.
These skilled immigrates are mostly why Asian are higher up.
Why are Hispanics come up so low well a lot come in illegally and take low pay jobs and do not get the benefits and pay legal workers get.

Black simple not many choose to go to college the gansta culture is their real worst enemy.

asian median income tends to be high because many recent asian immigrants are allowed in US because of their investment potential, educational goals or other financial activities. considering the types of immigrants here and the smaller group size, it is no surprise that the median income is much higher than other groups. white median income, on the other hand, includes the poorest to the richest white americans hence the reason why they don’t have the highest figure. i bet you the numbers will be much different if you look at the mean average instead of the median.

because most modern ‘asians’, and those that comes here are no longer ‘boat people’ but are simply taking advantage of education systems while their parents who are doctors, professors, and rich spoiled and sheltered idiots in their own country who pay their expenses out of their asses. It’s much easier to claim that your ethnicity is doing well when the majority of their socio-economic caste background is really set to begin with – only the semi-well off/rich can even afford to come here and they are the majority/significant minority, so of course their median is going to be higher. considering that, I am surprised that it is so low – is it the complacency and ineptitude of asians in general that causes them to perform so badly even when presented with all the advantages their homeland can give them?

there are plenty of poor asians lazier and doing worse than other immigrants (even mexicans) but of course they never mention their ‘shame’.

“there are plenty of poor asians lazier and doing worse than other immigrants (even mexicans) but of course they never mention their “shame’.”

You won`t find too many of such ppl in South Korea and Japan, even China has activated itself. You must mean some South-East Asian island countries…but even Indonesia is developing to more industrious nation.

you must not get out much than, or lived anywhere there much. Guys with broken legs pushing carts trying to peddle 5th rate crap, a kid kneeling on side of the road with a sign that says ‘please spare some change i need to save money to buy airticket and go back to korea’, people living in markets basically off the hand while being trampled by rich fucks with money that their corrupt daddy gave them out of pocket.

But they either hide it, ignore it, or deny and deny again.

Go actually live there and see it during your life as part of that place – you have no idea what you are talking about.

Thank you for your petition. We regret to inform you that a recent cyberattack originating from your country was linked to the movement to rename the Sea of Japan.

A policy we formally maintain is “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” so we regret to inform you that no action will be taken with regards to the Sea of Japan.

This incident has brought to our attention that the Liancourt Rocks are located IN the Sea of Japan, so in accordance with the Japanese government’s wishes, we shall henceforth know them as the “Takeshima Islets.”

Regards,
The White House itself… because you know, it writes letters to the Internet and stuff.

American can talk about history once the majority of their highschool kids know that the US lost the Vietnam War. Plain and simple.

(i’m canadian)

I had 3 exchange students in my highschool who all took the same history course as i did. When the Vietnam War came up they all questioned the history teacher why the US was stated to have lost in the textbook. When the teacher asked the them what the US’s objective was in Vietnam they all replied “To stop the spread of communism” perfectly. Then my teacher said “And what is Vietnam right now?” Literally laughed my ass off

That’s why I think Containment was a stupid idea. I understand the fear and paranoia back then but a policy that obligates a nation to go to war is an utterly stupid idea. A typical argument from Vietnam War critics, I know. Even more so is that it wasn’t our war to fight, which I honestly don’t believe it was. At least people got to see what war was really like.

*Non-US citizens can make petitions to the our federal government*
*South Koreans abuse this and cause the federal severs to go down*
*Americans cant even play Korean games even if they know Korean w/o stealing a dead persons KSID*

“have forgotten about the massive American blood spilled to defend them from the North Korean invasion aided by Russians and Communist Chinese during the Korean War in the ’50s. Now they want the American forces out. Their extreme ethnocentricity blinds them and they want to rewrite history per their stories. That is plain wrong.”

Truer words have never been said, but also, remember that there are few good men, yes, men who fought alongside americans and are actually supremely scornful of the modern-day anti-americanism among spoiled little kids that spam f5 all day.

look up ‘counter demonstrations and MacArthur statue’. these veterans stare down little kids, and their banner against anti-american protesters literally reads: “don’t get uppity you little fuckers’, ‘respect our brothers in war blood’.

it was good to see true men amongst hordes of uppity little kids in that country. I shook their hands and had a couple drinks with them too – true heroes and bros.

LOL so this is what uppity americans jack off to everyday. Sorry if the rest of world don’t give a fuck about your selfless heroic antics for other countries, and here’s a little slap in the face: only reason you’re allowed a hole to station your bases in is because the cowards in charge don’t have the balls to kick your gunfodder asses out in case their neighbors go apeshit on them. You never were heroes OR bros, and nobody, asian or otherwise, ever considered you as such.

LOL no you’re the one starting rascist shit in every comment, bitch the story of your life and think you’re some serious little gangsta punk. I hand you the truth and lo, screaming like a whore. You really want your chat, I’m in london.

16:54 it’s real funny you say ‘kiddo’ and ‘tips’, really sound like a pussy living a posh life, talks shit like one too &&

Here’s a real tip: don’t start shit with people who know what they are talking about first-hand. you wish they made it up now wouldn’t you? If you really can’t help it why don’t we sit down and have a talk in real life about starting shit without knowing anything about them? I can give you some ‘healthy living tips’ first hand.

You would wish it’s made up now won’t you? And what exactly makes you think this wasn’t done in their place? Maybe you don’t know shit about real thing unlike some people who experienced things first hand. Believe me, people are a bit more experienced in things which you don’t know about hiding behind the monitor. Why don’t we sit down and have some chat if you really have yourself in a twist?

Real lawl is how you think you can talk shit to me like some bitch punk defending these retards. You better watch that mouth of yours if you don’t know what shit you are starting and quit barking up the wrong tree.

It’s a LAWL for me at this point. Some hilarious shit you made up there, kiddo, and pretending to post as different anons and talking real gangsta was fun too. I’m gonna give you a couple of tips on healthy living though, with your parents obviously failing to do so.
1. Don’t make overly obvious shit up for sake of braggadocio.
2. Learn the definition of respect and don’t start barking like a bitch at the words “Korea””Japan””Asia”
3. Don’t post provocative shit on things you know nothing about, just because nothing’s going to happen to you for it.
4. You really gonna start shit about ppl’s races and countries, at least have the balls to do it at their place.

Part of the problem is that North Korean sympathizers have spread anti-American propaganda claiming claiming the Americans never did jack shit and are only stationed in South Korean to oppress Korea, prevent them from becoming one nation once more. The stupid kids eat this shit up because South Korea does nothing to stop these claims.

nah, they’re just too obsessed with how one asshole is going to fuck over another asshole, in the next election and how badly they can fuck over legitimate business owners with ridiculous taxes & fees.

Lmao, really? they expect them to change text books? I didn’t learn anything truthfull till after I had already graduated. Our textbooks were 15 years old at the time. The U.S. doesn’t really care about the education of the public school system, why do they think we’re are considered one of the dumbest of the countries, aside from 3rd world countries.

You mean just like all other ‘history text books’ in asia that are officially sanctioned by the government, spun to make them look good and criticize everyone else, ignore/whitewash 100 times more than anyone else their historical failings, instead of largely privatized industry here in us?

And, lo, suddenly there came forth from the cave many dragons; and when the children saw them, they cried out in great terror. Then Jesus went down from the bosom of His mother, and stood on His feet before the dragons; and they adored Jesus, and thereafter retired.

And what benefit does this brings to the world? who cares what you call it. If people have time for this I assume they also have time to make the hunger of children elsewhere finally disappear, but guess what? those who have the power to do so just don’t give a f*ck. Yes, it’s a sad sad world indeed.

“Our veterans were the major force defeating Japan in World War II. We helped Korea to regain its freedom.”

lol wat.

your ‘veterans’ got raped by japanese after a cleansing operation and fled mainly to manchuria and carried out insignificant acts that only strengthened japan’s oppression in korea. they were nothing more than pests compared to chinese resistance fighters, american army and marines, and cannot even measure up to other resistance partisans of world war 2. the best they could do was raiding kempentai (japanese police) kiosks then try to spin it as ‘great victory’.

and should i even mention all those chin-ilpa who sided with japanese and helped bring about nanjing, massacres in manchuria, and so many other war crimes?

I think delusional fuckers can convince themselves of anything these days if it makes them feel better. ‘major force in winning ww2’. seriously delusional crap right there.

Ah, more from that sort of obnoxious evangelistic atheist who thinks that any and every discussion on any topic whatsoever provides a fine opportunity for them to cram their views about religion down people’s throats.

Some of us who have other things to think about than an burning, all-consuming hatred of Christians might think that this topic is a dumb and inappropriate place for obsessive Jesus-haters to off on a tangent, but I guess that’s just us.

Asking about God, God does not have a beard because God is not human and is the ground of all existence, the Uncaused Cause. But again a good troll and one from another irrational atheist who takes metaphorical language literally.

Now go cram your “universe from nothing where nothing is a field of virtual particles of a certain symmetry” elsewhere. Even Dawkins endorsed than and now that Krauss is backpedaling the finest atheist minds are made to look like philosophical buffoons. You should be embarrassed to call yourself an atheist after that.

Well you say, teach, I say rudely, with any lack of shame demand that it have equal time with lessons that actually manage to make the little shits think for one. You know, science, where you have to prove yer shit.

Actually archaeologists and historians have used the Bible as a reference and it has been backed up by archaeological evidence. For one, Pontius Pilate was never believed to be the governor of Judea until a stone with that inscription was unearthed. Anyway dream on.

admin, i am afraid there is no documents proofing Jesus existed, other than religious scripts.
First religious scripts telling about Jesus were written later than year 100.
Strange? Not at all, Story of Jesus was made by early christian wanna-be leaders.
Fairytales.

Virtually all scholars consider Jesus a real historical figure. The few who don’t are a minority –think of them as scientists who are creationists. Tacitus or Josephus accounts were never “proven” to be false. There is actually more evidence for Jesus as real then any other figure of that status and period.

Actually Jesus was a Jew and probably would have looked a lot like a modern Arab as that’s what the original Jews before the diaspora would have been most closely related to.
Which is why Racism is funny as often the most closely related ethic groups end up hating each other’s guts.

FYI Koreans and Japanese are very closely related maybe on the same level as British and French.

Americans would be a wee bit confused if it was named East Sea, as it is in fact to the west of the US. And Americans are easily confused anyways, especially about geography so no need to make it any harder to them.

[quote]Americans would be a wee bit confused if it was named East Sea, as it is in fact to the west of the US.[/quote]
It’s also to the east of the US, just much further. Funny how spheres work, isn’t it?

I wish they stop talking shit and actually act on it. But seeing as they take shit and get bitch slapped from their starved, impoverished northern neighbor all the time they really fit the saying ‘dog’s bark is louder than its bite’. They outnumber, out gun, out supply them, yet they still won’t fight.

hey cunt eyes, why do you bend over take it and not act when little kim fatass talks shit? do you think you can keep your country when you don’t fight for it?

what can you do? everyone is so fired up on something like this. and this site should be a place where all races have a level field and have a common standpoint. eh, humans will be humans. self destructive, self supportive

IF they want the name of the water body between Korea & Japan changed so badly, perhaps they should come up with a name that does not place a body of water with the word “east” on Japan’s western coastline. Idiots.

America should troll them both, time machine that fucker back to the Oriental Sea and include a nice go fuck yourselves letter with the initial batch of updated maps.

we are simply playing our part in this ‘alliance’. without our market due to tariffs, they will be forced to sell to china and becomes its bitch like they have been for their entire history.

but I agree, they need to get nuked by N.korea. let’s see them beg the world to come save their mouthy little asses when n.koreans are raping their women and killing everything in sight. We will just stand back and laugh.

They got their asses conquered, and conquering people have always renamed things. JUST FUCKING DEAL WITH IT. Besides, I don’t think this protest group has thought how much it would cost to reprint all the textbooks that are out there. So if they wanna go ahead and pay the astronomical cost, I say let ’em and they can rename the sea, otherwise, stop wasting out time with such as stupid petition.

Well considering South Korea is one of the world’s leading producers of consumer electronics, automobiles, cell phones, household appliances, etc, etc. And seriously? How long has India had to “catch up”?

Only because the world let’s them. Wages are too expensive in the west, 3rd world doesn’t have the tech or education, so they fill the role. Wait until south asia and india catches up, they will go the way of japan in regards to handing over manufacturing jobs of electronics.

they are simply bowing to their master and begging for our intervention on their behalf.

seriously, normally a person would recognize america cannot necessarily make these changes which would entail a world wide cartographic correction, but nope, gooks are too slavish to those stronger than them.

Who gives a fuck what those filthy kimichi scented mongrels think anyway? South Korea is nothing more than a cheap knock off of Japan. It always will be the Sea of Japan
U mad Gyong-Seung-Jun-Kim-Su-Park-Su-Yun-Song?

I remember fighting some korean kid who was training in taekwondo…He thought it was the cat’s meow.
I promptly and repeatedly introduced his face to ground(grassy). He was a paper tiger like most Koreans are. All mouth and no heart….smh
Sea of Japan is fine by me.

I once had a class with a Korean man. We were sort of friendly and I was asking him about general Korean stuff and made the mistake of referring to the ‘Sea of Japan’ during the topic of east asian geography.

He immediately was like I THINK YOU MEAN SEA OF KOREA MY SON (in so many words) and proceeded to draw a series of maps and give me an impromptu lesson on 1000 years of Korean history.

Funny, the Korean petition forgot to say the Koreans were killing Americans around the 1950s. While it was the more northern koreans that did the majority of killing, now the southern koreans think US is the enemy.

Should US be kowtowing to an enemy and change the textbooks? No. The United States of America should not bend to demands by enemies. It would be absolutely un-American and unpatriotic.

Prove the petition for American people is being abused by foreigners and you’re un-American by down voting.

Its the “Sea of Japan” now suck our balls, oh wait you may be sucking the North Korean balls soon enough. Web page down, oh I am so scared. Way better anime out of Japan so I am on their crazy side for now, muhahaha.

First, WTF do our bases in SK have to do with renaming the Sea of Japan? Answer: not a damn thing.

Second, if NK starts shit, then SK is going to be the ones in trouble, not the USA. I’m pretty sure that SK as a whole is glad that we have bases there. But, if they want us to leave, I’m sure we’ll be gone with little or no argument.

>>Our veterans were the major force defeating Japan in World War II. We helped Korea to regain its freedom.

FUCKING LOL. Now that shit is delusional. The Americans, Brits, and Aussies did the bulk of the work, with the Russians crushing their land forces in China. Korea pretty much spent WWII watching impotently as it’s women were turned into prostitutes for the Japanese occupiers.

English did F%@#$all against the japanese in ww2, it was America/Australia that thwarted the japanese in the pacific with Russians in/around China. Churchill was a man that wanted to be remember by how so much he did to the war effort but so little he did.

don’t forget it was Churchill who cut ties in the pacific once Singapore fell. it was up to Australia to create an alliance with America.

kinda hard to argue with japan to the full extent if they are oblivious to the fact of Japanese involvement in ww aswll2???, do they teach you that history in japan yet?, or is it some made up story.

one correction: the ‘land forces’ that russians crushed were more like last-minute conscripts + vast number of KOREAN and chinese forced conscripts that were undisciplined, cowardly, and surrendered mainly at the first sight. bulk of land forces surrendered/died in pacific – in the entire theatre, americans killed at least 40 to 50% of japanese land forces plus their cream of crop divisions, pilots, and naval forces.

russia takes lion’s share of land action in europe, but not in china.

lion’s share, even with land battles in pacific war, goes to americans because vast number of ‘japanese’ troops fighting in china and manchuria were chinese and korean conscripts along with low-tier japanese troops, while their ‘elites’ were rerouted to pacific but were raped by marines. Not to mention japanese vastly understated their losses against americans.

despite how koreans like to change history by keep repeating lies, here’s what really happened.

korean women weren’t forced into prostitution, they sold themselves for money
prostitution was legal there even before japanese took over, and prostitution is still huge in korea now.

this whole korean confort women wasn’t a problem until the early 1990’s when a tabloid news paper in korea did a story on an old hooker during the war, than many after were after the money and made up stories to get publicity.
politicians picked it up as campaign to get votes up until today

fact is japan paid korea compensation in whole already that covered all the damages, and gave korea financial aid on top of that.

the korean government back then didn’t pay anything to these hooker women because they didn’t see them as victims since they willingly sold themselves to contract companies to become hookers. There were probably human trafficing with these companies (run by koreans in korea mind you), but the way both korean and japanese governments looked at it, it was just country hiring companies to contract the comfort women out. Again that’s why the korean government didn’t give these women any money from the compensations that japanese gave to korea.

again, now korea politicians bring this up when there’s an election to get people angry so they’ll get votes. So there you go.